Kiska
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thumb|250px|right|Map of the western Aleutian Islands. Kiska is shown as Island #7; [[Attu Island is shown as Island #1.]]
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Kiska
- Islands.image_name
- KiskaMap.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- A topographical map of Kiska
- Islands.image_size
- 250px
- Islands.native_name
- Qisxa
- Islands.native_name_link
- Aleut language
- Islands.archipelago
- Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands
- Islands.area_sqmi
- 107.22
- Islands.length_mi
- 22
- Islands.width_mi
- 1.5
- Islands.width_footnotes
- -
- Islands.highest_mount
- Kiska Volcano
- Islands.elevation_ft
- 4,004
- Islands.country
- United States
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- State
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Alaska
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Census Area
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Aleutians West Census Area
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- European discovery (1741)
- After discovery (1741–1939)
- World War II (1939–1945)
- Since World War II
- In fiction
- Kiska Volcano
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|250px|right|Map of the western Aleutian Islands. Kiska is shown as Island #7; [[Attu Island is shown as Island #1.]]
Kiska (, ) is one of the Rat Islands, a group of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. It is about long and varies in width from . It is part of Aleutian Islands Wilderness and as such, special permission is required to visit it. The island has no permanent population.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kiska” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (8)
On the map
3 mapped locations